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Nontrailing separators do not spark joy

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

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Columnar Storage Is Normalization

Illegal vs Unwanted States

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A sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code

Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

Floyd's Sampling Algorithm

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AI and the Illegal War

LLMs are bad at vibing specifications

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

My Gripes with Prolog

Refinement Without Specification

The Liskov Substitution Principle does more than you think

Inlining

"AI" is bad UX

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Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

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